Welcome

The Leadville Hostel, located in beautiful Leadville, Colorado, is the highest hostel in the US, situated in the heart of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain wonderland. We’re not your typical bare-bones hostel! With clean beds, beautifully decorated rooms and lots of hot water, our hostel is an ideal resting place for the road-weary explorer. We have a large common rooms for quiet reading or socializing with fellow pilgrims, and the hostel gives its guests the feeling of a home on the road. Activities are endless in our beautiful area!So, what exactly is a hostel?

A hostel is a type of lodging that offers just what traveling groups, single travelers and budget minded families need — beds, showers, laundry facilities and a large common kitchen. One excellent feature of the hostel is our very large fully equipped kitchen that enables you to cook meals — further stretching your vacation dollars. We can also prepare meals for a nominal fee per person (only available if you have a group of 10 or more). Check out our menu (one selection per group of 10 people or more per evening).

Leadville is also a great place to explore and shop, getting a feel for how people lived in the mountains in the wild and woolly days of early Colorado.

Catching Snowflakes

If you are coming for winter activities, we are 23 miles away from Copper Mountain, 45 miles away from Vail and just nine miles away from a very family friendly ski resort — Ski-Cooper (much more reasonably priced, less crowded and less intimidating that the better known mega-resorts). Besides all that, Leadville has miles of snowshoe and cross-country trails in the surrounding area. If you are into snowmobiles, there are trails for you to explore as well.

The summertime has many opportunities too — biking, hiking, mountain climbing, kayaking and fishing just to name a few. The high country is the ideal place for adventure-minded people to get close to nature while indulging their adrenaline needs.

We hope that you will consider staying at the Leadville Hostel, and if you know of groups that might be interested in our type of accommodations, please let them know about us.

If you have any questions or want to make a reservation, please contact us. We hope to hear from you soon.

All guests must be over the age of 18 or traveling with parent or guardian.